With Love to the Muslims of the World — Page 34
34 He has been raised to the station of Kh a tam by the grace of God. There can never be his like before him or after. Again he says: When a master excels all others in his art, don’t you use the word ‘ kh a tam’ to convey the idea that he has excelled all oth- ers in his domain? (Mathnaw i , vol. VI, p. 8, 1917 ed. ) And the greatest of the Muslim Sufi s, Hadrat Ibn-e- ‘Arab i , has so clearly explained: "The prophethood that came to an end with the advent of the Holy Prophet sa was the law-bearing prophethood and not the institution of prophethood itself. No law can now cancel the Law of the Holy Prophet sa or add any injunction to it. This indeed is the meaning of the saying of the Holy Prophet sa , " L a nabiyya ba‘d i ’’ (there will be no prophet after me). This only